Bale-tie



(Model) J. w. emswoLn-q BALE TIE.

o. 466,563. Patented Jan. 5, I892.

UNITEDISTATESPATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WVOOL GRISW'OLD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,563, dated January5, 1892.

Application filed June 16, 1891.

v. the band, through which eye or loop the other vso in the saddle.

end of the band is passed, drawn tight, and then secured.

My invention consists in a wire bale-band having at one end an eye orloop, and in said eye a saddle or thimble having a V-shaped openingadapted to receive the opposite end of said band.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 is aplan view, of my improved bale-tie. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of my tie, showing theinserted end of the band in place in the saddle.

Similar letters vofreference indicate like parts.

forming this eye is received in a groove or channel in the exterior ofthe metal saddle or thimble (J. This saddle may be made of malleable orwrought metal, and may be bent, folded, or doubled over the wire eye. Itis also to be bent or otherwise formed so that the opening therein is Vor wedge shaped. The opposite end D of the wire is normally straight. Inorder to secure it, it is passed through the V-shaped opening in thesaddle or thimble, and hence through the eye B, and it is then securedto its own standing part E by wrap ping or twisting. The end D thereforelies snugly in the angle of the V-shaped opening As soon as strain isapplied to the band the eye B tends to close, and the parts of thesaddle are thus forced together, so biting or clamping the wire Dtightly in the angle of the V-shaped opening in the sad- $erial No.396,523. (ModeL) dle O, and thus effectually preventing any possibleslipping of the said wire.

I am well aware that wire bale-ties embodying-a saddle held in a loop,through which saddle the other end of the bale-tie passes and is finallysecured by twisting on itself, are old, and such construction I do notbroadly claim. In such prior devices the object of the saddle is merelyto furnish a support or reinforcement for the eye, and it has nofunction to grip or look the end of the band inserted through it. Bymaking the opening in the saddle V-shaped, or with edges so inclinedthat near the apex of said opening the distance between the inclinedsides is less than the diameter of the wire which passes between them,it follows as a necessary consequence that said wire becomes jammedbetween the parts of the saddle when strain is applied, and that thegreater the applied strain the more the eye in the wire tends to closeupon the saddle and to contract the opening therein, and therefore themore tightly to jam the received end. This is notat all true of anyprior bale-tie embodying a saddle with which I am familiar, and, infact, such prior saddles have generally been made semicircular in formor otherwise so constructed as that no possible jammingof the wirereceived by them can occur.

I claim- 1. A wire bale-band having at one end an eye and in said eye asaddle or thimble having an angular opening with its apex outward andadapted to receive the opposite end of said band, the width of saidopening near said apex being less than the diameter of said received endof said band.

2. A wire bale-tie having an eye at one end formed by looping andwrapping or twisting the wire about itself and a saddle or thimblehaving an external groove or channel in which said eye is received andan angular opening with its apex outward and adapted to receive theopposite end of said band, the width of said opening'in said saddle nearsaid apex being less than the diameter of said opposite end of saidband.

3. A wire bale-band having an eye at one end and aV-shaped saddle orthimble received 1 m:

receive an eye B, formed on one end of said band, and with an angularopening in which the end D of said band is received, the said I 5angular opening being formed near its apex,

so that the said end D may become jammed or wedged therein when strainis applied to said band, substantially as described.

JOHN WOOL GRISWOLD.

\Vitnesses:

W. R. BRIDGEL, Gno. M. PAYFER.

